SAS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

SAS System
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring SAS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 95 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing SAS 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.61% 0.066% 0.054%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.02% 0.58% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £477 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +42.44% -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £672 £475 -
90th Percentile £689 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

SAS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 133 171 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.22% 11.24% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 110 116
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £384 £288 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -16.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £548 £564 £631
90th Percentile £636 £575 £689
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 19
10th Percentile £17.15 £20.40 £14.20
25th Percentile £23.36 £24.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £55.59 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.30% +50.00% +46.41%
75th Percentile £72.50 £40.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £75.25 £46.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.74% +11.76% +107.32%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the East of England

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAS

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the East of England

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SAS

SAS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex - 4 £662 - 3
Cambridgeshire - 2 £408 - 1
Hertfordshire +4 1 £575 +27.78%
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
SAS
England

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) Text Mining
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (12.50%) Automotive
5 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Information Scientist
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) R Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Credit Risk
2 3 (37.50%) Life Science
3 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Credit Risk Management
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Regulatory Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
1 5 (62.50%) Scorecard
1 5 (62.50%) System Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
1 5 (62.50%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Economics
3 2 (25.00%) Health Informatics
3 2 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) R
4 5 (62.50%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP